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Unable to open Solution Files for TX2D 3.0 in Visual C#

by Dave Calabrese · in Torque X 2D · 06/12/2009 (12:12 pm) · 5 replies

I realize there were a few postings about this for older versions of all the software, however their solutions did not seem relevant for this so I'm creating a new forum for the new versions.

I am having issues in a number of places. First off, I have installed Visual C# Express 2008, TorqueX 3.0 and XNA Game Studio 3.1. I then made sure that TorqueX2D and 3D were both registered with my registration key provided on my GarageGames account page.

Next, I opened up C# to create a project. When I go to the templates list, I only have 2 templates there:

- Starter Game 2D (3.0)
- Starter Game 3D (3.0)

I don't have any of the other templates that the instructions say I should have. So next I try opening up some of the projects that come with TorqueX. I open up 'TankBuster.sln', and receive the following error:

"The project file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\GarageGames\Torque X 3.0 for XNA Creators Club\v3.0.0.0\Demos\TankBuster\TankBuster.csproj cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation."

I receive this same error with all other example projects.


So, in conclusion, 2 problems...

1.) I'm missing all but 2 of the project templates.
2.) I cannot open any of the demo projects.


Has anyone had a similar problem and been able to work their way through this? I've already tried uninstalling everything XNA and TorqueX related and carefully reinstalling all of it, however the same problem still occurred, so clearly I'm missing something somewhere...

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help out!
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Torque Owner L P
#1
06/12/2009 (2:59 pm)
Did you upgrade the projects? If not, do that.
If that doesn't work, check that you can create a new project.

Associate Dave Calabrese
Cerulean Games
#2
06/12/2009 (3:19 pm)
@Luis: By upgrade the project, do you mean what happens when you try and load a project and it offers to upgrade it...? If not, then I'm not entirely sure what you mean by upgrade.

I tried creating a new project, and I got a very similar error to above. This one says:

"The project file 'C:\Users\Dave Calabrese\AppData\Local\Temp\ys4ibgeh.apd\Temp\Game.csproj cannot be opened. The project type is not supported by this installation."

Torque Owner Scott Zarnke
#3
06/15/2009 (12:26 pm)
I believe those two project templates are the only ones that come with Torque. The others you're referring to being missing I think come from XNA, so that installation is probably the problem.

In your installation, you put XNA on first, then Torque, right?

Associate Dave Calabrese
Cerulean Games
#4
06/16/2009 (4:31 am)
Got it to work. I ended up needing to uninstall everything Visual Studio related that I had, then reinstall just the XNA stuff. Looks like I had something conflicting, probably something old. Thanks for the suggestions, everyone!

Torque 3D Owner Gavin Beard
Byte Logic
#5
06/16/2009 (5:33 am)
Glad it's working now Dave, look forward to see what you come up with in tx2d :-)